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The cluster of analytic methods for interpreting the stories in texts is called narrative methods. Narrative methods assume that people tell stories to make sense of their own lives and organize them based on their purposes and underlying assumptions.
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Examples of a structural approach can be found in the following article.
Larty, J., & Hamilton, E. (2011). Structural approaches to narrative analysis in entrepreneurship research: Exemplars from two researchers. International Small Business Journal., 29(3), 220–237.
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James, W. (2023). Structural Narrative Analysis. In: Okoko, J.M., Tunison, S., Walker, K.D. (eds) Varieties of Qualitative Research Methods. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04394-9_70
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